Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 48

Thus squeaked the Rat; he squeaked in honor of the old time, when Mother Plague was still alive.

Who acts: place, Mother · What happens: squeak, be, honor · To what, where: Rat, honor, old time

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, Mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 squeaked	advmod
2	squeaked	squeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 squeaked	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 squeaked	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 squeaked	nsubj
7	squeaked	squeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 squeaked	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 honor	case
9	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 squeaked	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 time	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 honor	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 alive	punct
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 alive	mark
16	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 alive	nsubj
17	Plague	Plague	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Mother	flat
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 alive	cop
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 alive	advmod
20	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 squeaked	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 squeaked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeak	past		the Rat			thus property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rat=Theme
2	squeak	past	place		honor of the old time			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in honor=Location
3	is	past	Mother			still	alive property	tree rules
4	honor			the old time				nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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